With busy college life many kids don’t
have or want to take the time to go out and participate in physical activities. According to the National Center for Bio-technical Information there has been a
steady increase in the amount of obesity on college campuses. There are many different places around campus
that are easy to get to where different kinds of physical activities can take
place which would fill the void of people’s laziness. This map explores some of the places around
campus and highlights some of the things that can be done there and how these
can be healthy things for a person to go out and do. I used the following criteria to analyze and
evaluate the places I have chosen: What kinds of activities can be performed
there, are these activities good or bad for your health, how much knowledge is
required to participate in these activities at these places, good times to use
these places, and any barriers to entry of the place.
To support these criteria I will include
resources such as the websites relating to these places, my own observations
and health websites related to physical activities and sports. The places that I have chosen to evaluate
using these criteria are the student recreation complex, Tempe Town lake just north of campus, A- mountain also known as Hayden Butte
Preserve, and the intramural fields next to the student recreation
complex. All of these places have many
different physical activities that can be performed there. These activities can be anything from lifting
weights to club sports, from jogging to hiking up a mountain.
The places will be analyzed on how good
or bad they are for you based on the activities. On places that involve running the more
running that is involved is better for your body as running helps to keep you
in ship and helps to keep your heart healthy.
There are studies that show that it is bad for your body as well such as
your knees. According to My Health News Daily running especially if not done properly can lead to the premature
destruction of cartilage. To prevent this, a person needs to take baby steps
per say in leading up to running long distances, and it takes some time to
learn the proper technique to running.
Lifting weights can also be bad for your health if you do it improperly
and you can get severely hurt doing it. There
are also many club sports or games that you can join at each of these places
which will be explained in each annotation.
Barriers to entry are classified as
whether it costs any money to get in, and what times that the locations are
open to people using them. The
information found regarding these barriers was found on the websites of the
respective places. The knowledge
required to participate in activities at these locations will be analyzed
depending on what activities a person can perform there and some places may
have more activities that require greater knowledge that others. This will also be discussed in the annotations
giving another evaluation criterion. The
places were chosen to be evaluated based on a few different criteria. The first reason was they had to be places
that were close to the ASU campus because otherwise no students will want to go
to these places. The second reason was
that they had to be non NCAA related because the places related to the college
sports around campus generally only allow their usage to athletes of the
school. Another reason was that these
places had to be free and easy to get in to because everybody likes free things
rather than having to pay for a normal gym membership.
Based on these criteria these places
will be evaluated to find both their good aspects and their not so good
aspects. All of these places will help
to fill the exercise void in college students lives just some will do it better
than others.
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